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Zoom Into a Butterfly Wing poster

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Overview
Zoom Into a Butterfly Wing poster
Jennifer Frazier [3]
NISE Network product
image/jpeg iconannbuttwing_copy.jpg [4]

Description: 

This illustration shows a butterfly's wing across ten orders of magnitude, from the butterfly to the atoms of which it is made. Using the conventions of visual perspective the image travels in one continuous “landscape” from the human scale at the top to the atomic scale in the foreground. Placing objects from the butterfly's wing in one frame clarifies connections between components, highlighting the system’s reliance on structures at very different scales. This version of the image is a poster with annotated text explaining the different objects in the image, but it is also available as a poster without annotations, a banner or a graphic file, and also appears on the "Everything is Made of Atoms" Poster with other parallel zooms into the human bloodstream and a computer chip.
Objectives

Learning goals: 

  • Objects are made of atoms Things are made of smaller and smaller parts.
Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Exploratorium [5]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed
Peer reviewed? check_not_reviewed
Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

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Audience

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Tags

[8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15]

Permissions

Creative Commons license image [16]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section: 

Media

What kind of media?: 

Print media

Nano topics: 

Art and nature

Audience: 

11 and up

Content keywords: 

scales
chitin
butterfly wing
atoms
zoom
illustration
art & nano
poster

Highlight this product during NanoDays?: 

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K-12: 

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Resources
Download zip file [2]

Download all files (ZIP) [2]

Files: 

image/jpeg iconZoom Into a Butterfly's Wing Illustration (Small) [17]
image/jpeg iconZoom Into a Butterfly's Wing Illustration (Medium) [18]
image/jpeg iconZoom into a Butterfly's Wing Illustration (Large) [19]
image/jpeg iconZoom into a Butterfly's Wing Poster- LowRez [20]
image/gif iconZoom Into a Butterfly's Wing Poster- MedRez [21]
image/jpeg iconZoom into a Butterfly's Wing Poster- HiRez [22]
application/pdf iconZoom Into a Butterfly's Wing - poster [23]
application/pdf iconZoom into a Butterfly's Wing- poster (Print Quality) [24]
application/pdf iconFormative evaluation report of Zoom into the Human Bloodstream & Butterfly illustrations [25]
Evaluations
Comments
Source URL: http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/media/zoom_butterfly_wing_poster

Links:
[1] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/media
[2] http://www.nisenet.org/node/3408/filefield_compress/all
[3] http://www.nisenet.org/users/jennifer-frazier
[4] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/images/catalog/about/annbuttwing_copy.jpg
[5] http://www.nisenet.org/community/organizations/exploratorium
[6] http://www.nisenet.org/category/nano-topics/art-nature
[7] http://www.nisenet.org/category/audience/11
[8] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/scales
[9] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/chitin
[10] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/butterfly-wing
[11] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/atoms
[12] http://www.nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/zoom
[13] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/illustration
[14] http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/topics/art_nano
[15] http://www.nisenet.org/category/files-keywords/poster
[16] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
[17] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/ZoomButterfly_Poster_1of2_May10.jpg
[18] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/ZoomButterfly_Poster_2of2_May10.jpg
[19] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/HighRezButterflyPic.jpg
[20] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/butterfly_poster_prinergy_low.jpg
[21] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/ZoomButterfly_Poster_May10.gif
[22] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/butterfly_poster_prinergy_print.jpg
[23] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/ZoomButterfly_Poster_May10.pdf
[24] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/butterfly_poster_prinergy_print.pdf
[25] http://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/3408/EvalBlood_Butterfly.pdf